Unpainted to the Last: Moby-Dick and Twentieth-Century American Art

This book presents visually and vividly, in full color where applicable, the history so far of artists' response to Melville's iconic novel, The abstract expressionists are especially fascinating to me: I didn't know about them and Moby-Dick. The text part is only so-so, so I'm docking it one star for that. But it's chock-full of great images! If you love Moby-Dick, you're gonna want this book.

"Unpainted to the Last" is a review of artistic representations of Herman Melville's epic "Moby-Dick". It covers illustrations in books as the main source of art work but also deals with other types of illustrations and three dimensional art such as sculpture. For anyone with an interest in "Moby-Dick" this book is to be recommended for its comprehensive coverage of the topic and its many beautifully reproduced illustrations. The book is very good value at the price (the reviewer purchased the paperback version) and should stand many years of reference.

Good compilation of art derived from Melville's Moby Dick. Could increase depth by, forexample, perhaps in an index, provide more information about individual illustrators. Thecoverage of Hilder, Kent and Bishop in an early chapter was very useful. I'd suggest any potentialreader shop for the best price.

Excellent book

This was a present for a Moby-fanatic close relative--he lovedit, found tons within that he had not seen anywhere else.

An excellent book!